§ 16-6-103.5 — Plea of guilty to offenses committed in two or more counties

Colorado § 16-6-103.5

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 16: Criminal
• Art.: Change of Venue and

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(1) Any person charged with crimes in more than one county of this state may apply
to the district attorney of one of said counties to be charged with all crimes so that
he may enter into a disposition and be sentenced for them in that single county. The
application shall contain a description of all charged crimes and the name of the
county in which each was committed.

(2) Upon receipt of the application, the district attorney shall prepare an
information charging all the charged crimes and naming in each count the county
where each was committed. He shall send a copy of the information to the district
attorney of each other county in which the defendant stands charged, together with
a statement that the defendant has applied to enter into a disposition in the county
of application. Upon receipt of the information and statement, the district attorney
of the other county may execute a consent in writing allowing the defendant to
enter a plea of guilty in the county to which application has been made to the crime
charged in the information and committed in the other county and send it to the
district attorney who prepared the information.

(3) If necessary, the district attorney shall amend the information so that it
includes only the offenses for which he has received written consent from the
district attorney of other counties, and he shall file the information in any court of
his county having jurisdiction to try or accept a plea of guilty to the most serious
crime alleged therein. The defendant then may enter a plea of guilty to all offenses
alleged to have been committed in the county where the court is located and to all
offenses alleged to have been committed in other counties as to which consents
have been executed pursuant to subsection (2) of this section. Before entering his
plea of guilty, the defendant shall waive in writing any right to be tried in the county
where the crime was committed. The district attorney of the county where the
crime was committed need not be present when the plea is made, but his written
consent shall be filed with the court.

(4) Thereupon the court shall enter such judgment, the same as if all the
crimes charged were alleged to have been committed in the county where the court
is located, whether or not the court has jurisdiction to try all those crimes to which
the defendant has pleaded guilty under this section.

(5) The clerk of the court in the county where the plea is made shall file a
copy of the judgment of conviction with the clerk in each county where a crime
covered by the plea was committed. The district attorney in each of said counties
shall then move to dismiss any charges covered by the plea of guilty which are
pending against the defendant in his county, and the same shall thereupon be
dismissed.

Legislative History

Source: L. 87: Entire section added, p. 603, � 3, effective July 1.